Piper Perabo credited as playing...
Julia McCullough
- Alfred Borden: He's progressive, he's predictable, he's boring. I mean, Milton's got success, whatever that means, and now he's scared, he won't take any risks at all. I mean, he's squandering the goodwill of the audience with these tired, second-rate tricks...
- Robert Angier: They're all favorites, please...
- Alfred Borden: Favorites? Come on, give me something fresh, he wont even try a bloody bullet catch!
- Cutter: A bullet catch is suicide, all it takes is some smart-ass volunteer to put a button in the barrel...
- Alfred Borden: Fine, use a plant!
- Robert Angier: You can't use plants for every trick!
- Julia McCullough: There'll be no seats left for the punters!
- [laughs]
- Alfred Borden: Fine, no bullet catch, whatever, but the point is... a real magician tries to invent something new, that other magicians are gonna scratch their heads over, you know?
- Cutter: Right, then you sell it to him for a small fortune?
- Alfred Borden: All right...
- Cutter: I suppose you have such a trick?
- Alfred Borden: Actually, I do.
- Julia McCullough: I thought up a name for you: The Great Danton. Do you like it? It's sophisticated.
- Robert Angier: [scoffs] It's French.
- Cutter: I saw you, drop the knot again...?
- Julia McCullough: I think I turned my wrist...
- Cutter: Some nights you just don't get it, do you? I mean, if that knot slips and Julia's on the hoist, she'll break her leg!
- Alfred Borden: It's a wrong knot.
- [pause, Cutter stares at him]
- Alfred Borden: Like I said, the Langfeld Double will hold tighter!
- Cutter: The Langfeld Double isn't a wet knot! It's too dangerous - if the rope swells up, she won't be able to slip it!
- Julia McCullough: I can slip a Langfeld underwater.
- Alfred Borden: [looks at Julia] She can slip it, we can practice...
- Robert Angier: Hey, Borden, he said no!
- Alfred Borden: [scoffs] Oh well, you know knots better than me, do you?
- Cutter: Listen! No more mistakes!